Hi,

I am experimenting with my old machine, I had Win2K and windXP on this machine as dual boot.
The Win2K is on the primary partition and the WinXP is on the SECOND partition. Now I want to install Ubuntu on the same machine. I did a manual partition from the Ubuntu installer, I wanted to add  it on the Win2k partition but it won't allow me, however, on the WinXP partition it would allow me to do so by formatting it, now my machine is dual boot to Win2K and Ubuntu. The WinXP was erased. Is there anyway I can make a triple boot with Win2K, WinXP and Ubuntu on the same HD?

MacPCOh, just out of curiocity, is it possible to have quad or more boot on one machine?You can add a lot of partitions and boot from them, but it is better to plan ahead, rather than resizing existing partitions.

To do this 3 way, Load Win2K first, then XP, then Ubuntu, BUT partition the secondary drive into a section for XP when installing that and leave the rest unallocated. Ubuntu will take that as it's first preference.That's a good idea, I will try that. Thanks. GX1.  Let us know how it goes.Partition magic is a very handy tool for things like this....with options like "Install new operating system" lolPartition Magic is good for rearranging existing partitions, but you have the ability to do this with NO ADDITIONAL software with pre-planning. Hi, Just want to share the result of my experiment. I did a new installation. First I partitioned the HD when I INSTALLED Win2K. The HD is 80G, so I gave 50G to Win2K and partition 30G for WinXP. After installing the Win2K on the first partition, I installed WinXP on the second one. Then I use the Ubuntu boot disk CD, follow the INSTRUCTION, sub-divided the WinXP partition (30G) to 7G for the XP and 23G for Ubuntu. After Ubuntu was installed, somehow I can't boot from WinXP. The 7G partition seems to be still intact. When I start up, Ubuntu Grub asks if I want to boot from Ubuntu or other OS, I choose the one says WindowsNT/200/XP (loader), then the next screen it let me pick Win2K or WinXP. If I pick Win2K, Win2K WORKS just fine, but if I pick WinXP, Then I get this msg

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\system32\hal.dll.
Please re-install a copy of the above file.

What is wrong here? Can you help me?

MacPCUse Partition Manager.. and you can open the harddrive and just copy and paste the file that it is missing.. from the folder.. WOW Win2k and WIXp and Ubintu that is awsome.. i should try that.. thanks for the .. topic.. but yeah try my suggestion